Tourist Information Center - Anamosa, Iowa - Tourist Information Centers - Visitor Centers on Waymarking.com

This is a 2-story, red brick commercial building constructed in 1946 by Tony Shada for the Anamosa Fruit Market, a business he operated with Charles Shada, his father. Although the storefront window and door have been altered, they retain the original storefront cavity, bulkhead, and inset entrance. An original transom might remain behind cover-up materials in the transom area. The upper story features two sets of paired windows, also with their original cavities but now infilled with visually distracting replacement windows. A brickworked plaque surmounts the second floor, topped with a cast concrete coping. In the 1990s, or thereabouts, the structure abutting this building to the east was razed, and limestone was applied as facing material on the east elevation of this building. Because the original storefront cavity remains intact, this building is evaluated as contributing to the historic district, although barely.

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